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Playdate!!

We had a weird start to the day. Cairn was up first (after Dad left) so none of us even saw Dad. I woke up at 8, Andrew was up at 8:30, and Skylar was up at 9:30. Late mornings caused a late start to school and we never really got back on track. Cairn was the only one who got all her work finished. We didn't make it to park day but Andrew did go to his playdate. Cairn was a little upset about that - she didn't think it was fair that Andrew didn't finish his work and still got to go. I tried to explain that he needs this playdate - it isn't just a fun thing.

The playdate was fantastic. Andrew and K did mostly parallel play as they would at this age but Andrew really like K. I thought he would want to play like he does with his sister with making up stories and making car noises and such. But he didn't. They played in the dirt, they played in their sand. They rode bikes and bounced on a bouncy ball. Then they went inside and played with K's cars. Andrew checked out his room.

After an hour, we left and Andrew talked the whole way home about his new friend. Skylar had piano tonight so I was gone with her but Andrew even told Dad about K without any prompting from me. He is very excited about a friend. We set up another playdate for next week and Andrew can't wait.

One of our activities was to build an Iroquoian Longhouse with gum drops and toothpicks. The kids were super excited for this project. I told them I wouldn't help them and I wanted everyone involved. so they divided up the house and got to work on building their section.

They all worked diligently.

Finally, everyone had completed their wall and it was time to put it together.

They tried and tried.

Eventually, I got involved to see if I could help them. We kept referencing the textbook to see if we had forgotten …

Today was a super hot day so we decided to do Field Day. Actually one doesn't have anything to do with the other but it was the hottest day of the year so far. Field Day had been scheduled for a month.

We got to the park at 12 PM for a picnic lunch with the other COVA students (COVA is Cairn's online school). We met up with lots of friends.

At 1 PM, they divided the kids into their grade levels which seems odd to me since they don't really hang out with the same aged peers but it makes it easy I suppose. Cairn went with the 4th graders since that is where all here friends were. No one seemed to notice and I didn't care. Skylar went with the kindergartners.

The three legged race.

Soccer dribbling.
Not sure what this was called but they ran with a ball.

Sponge race.

Frisbee
Cairn with her friend, O.
Cairn in the 3 legged race.
The aftermath - I think she was hot.

There were some fountains at the park where we were so everyone headed over after the events.
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The kids woke up to a nice surprise of Valentine cards, dye free candy, new shirts and socks, and new "lipstick" (chapstick). After eating breakfast we headed out for gymanstics. I am trying to get Andrew to go to class by himself so he can move up to the next class but he just isn't going for it and today I should have stayed in class. He was working on the last rotation of the day which was right by the lobby door so I could stand in the lobby and he could be in class - so I was really close by. He ran from the door where he had come to tell me to watch him do the donkey kick bar. All of a sudden he tripped on a mat and his poor little face hit the bar. He immediately came running back to me with blood pouring from his mouth. I watched the whole incident so I knew he had hit his face. I picked him and got the blood stopped after a few minutes but he just kept crying and crying. Finally, after about 20 minutes (Skylar was in her class…